Hugh Robinson

born in S. Maries Parish in the County of Anglesie, educated in Grammatical learning in Wykehams School near Winchester, admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll, after he had served two years of Probation, an. 1605, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being compleated in 1611, and about 3 years after leaving his College, he became chief Master of Winchester School, afterwards Archdeacon of Winton, Canon of Wells, D of Div. and Archdeacon of Glocester in the place, as it seems, of Sam. Burton deceased. In the beginning of the Civil War when the Puritan or Presbyterian began to be dominant, he sided with them, took the Covenant, and having lost in the War time the profits of his Canonry and Archdeaconry, obtained the rectory of Hinton near Winchester in Hampshire, whence a Loyal Person a little before had been ejected. He was an excellent Linguist, able Divine, and very well seen in antient Histories. His works are these.

Preces. written for the use of the children of Winchester School in Lat. and Engl.

Grammaticalia quaedam, in Lat. and Engl.

Antiquae Historiae Synopsis. All which were printed at Oxon. 1616. in a large oct.

Scholae Wintoniensis Phrases Latinae. The latine phrases of Winchester School, &c. Lond. 1654. 64. oct. published by Nich. Robinson (his Son)

Annalium mundi universalium, &c. Tomus Unicus, lib. 14. absolutus, &c. Lond. 1677. fol. Which book coming into the hands of Dr. Tho. Pierce Dean of Salisbury, he did, by the Kings command, revise, amend, and fill it up with many things that were wanting. He hath also written something in vindication of the Scotch Covenant, which I have not yet seen; nor do I know any thing else of him, only that he dying on the same day, on which James Duke of Richmond died, (so have I been informed by ((*))((*)) The Wife of Sir Will. Bourman Clerk of the Greencloth to K. Ch. 2. his Daughter) which was the 30 of March in sixteen hundred fifty and five,1655. was buried near to, and within, the North door of the Chancel belonging to the Church of S. Giles in the Fields near to London. In his Archdeaconry of Gloc. succeeded one John Middleton in 1660. After him succeeded Edw. Pope, who dying in Jan. 1671, John Gregory of Cambr. succeeded.